Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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This thesis explores in depth how to use the user browsing behavior, and in particular the referrer URL, in order to understand the interest of the users. The aim is, first, to understand the preferences of the users from ...
Proteins are the basic functional and structural blocks of life. Knowledge of their structure and function is key to understand how it works. Lately, the gap between new discovered proteins and systematically studied ones ...
Residential access networks provide always-on connectivity at a constant maximum speed and constant energy consumption. However, their usage is not constant. Users combine disconnection periods with light usage periods and ...
This thesis explores the sense and the implications of the messianicity without messianism, a quasi-concept coined by the thinker Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in the 1990s that refers to a “structure of experience” characterized ...
La ingente cantidad de información que existe actualmente hace necesario el desarrollo de herramientas, métodos y procesos que faciliten el acceso a la misma. Especialmente, se requieren sistemas de información que sean ...
El consum de substàncies psicoactives té importants conseqüències sanitàries, socials, econòmiques i laborals. Tot i així, el seu consum i les seves conseqüències no es distribueixen homogèniament en tota la població, ...
Music recommendation systems (RecSys) are integral to modern music streaming services. While there is much research on many aspects of RecSys, there is not enough research on exploration and discovery that contributes to ...
Fitness landscape is a concept, which describes the dependence of phenotype on genotype. It was proposed almost a hundred years ago but only recent burst of technologies finally allowed exploring it. We studied different ...
Brain activity, on every scale, spontaneously fluctuates, thereby exhibiting complex, dynamic interactions that manifest rich synchronization patterns. The past ten years have been dominated by studies intended to further ...
In the last couple of years, medical information has been presented across different digital and visual forms of communication. Mainly, comics are published on various social media platforms and websites to submit a ...
This dissertation concerns the computational modelling of early life development of music perception and cognition. Experimental psychology and neuroscience show results that suggest that the development of musical ...
Butterflies are among the best studied animals, but despite the research efforts carried out during centuries, our knowledge on their diversity and on the mechanisms generating it is still incomplete. In order to understand ...
Engineering biology requires a clear set of rules that ensure design predictability. However, certain biological processes difficult the application of these rules, impairing prediction. In the first section of this PhD ...
Biodiversity encompasses the great variety of organisms that exist on Earth, as well as their genetic variation and the ecosystems of which they are part. In this thesis, two diverse and ecologically important groups are ...
Intercultural education is one way of responding to the current political and social realities resulting from globalization, migration, and political and economic crises. It puts emphasis on educating young people and ...
Las enfermedades y otros procesos biológicos son complejos y están producidos por la interacción de múltiples factores genéticos y ambientales. En las últimas décadas, los métodos tradicionales reduccionistas han dado paso ...
Rare disorders have been presumed to be caused by monogenic variation for decades, hindering the diagnosis in some cases. With many rare disease patients still missing a molecular diagnosis after genetic testing, the ...
The primary goal of this PhD is to deepen our understanding and improve the modeling capacity of zoonotic spillover, the multilevel process by which pathogens manage to overcome a series of natural barriers and infect other ...
Alternative splicing (AS) is an important step in the pathway of gene expression and regulation. The splicing process is catalyzed by the Spliceosome, a complex molecular machinery that is dynamically assembled on the ...
The kinase DYRK1A (dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinase 1A) is a dosage-sensitive gene, since both haploinsufficiency and overexpression when in trisomy lead to pathological phenotypes in humans. In this Thesis, the ...
